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Thursday, December 11, 2008

I am so excited to show you my sneak peek of the One Free with 3 set (purchase any 3 sets from Gina K Designs and this will be yours for free!) However, the month after the release, the set will be available for purchase separately. I made this card & set for my sister Deana whose birthday is the day after Christmas. I always like to be sure she gets something real special since she has been jipped out of gifts growing up. We always had cake & ice cream the day after Christmas to celebrate although we were always stuffed! I remember my mom recalling the birth of my middle sister, they were out eating dinner at a restaurant when her water broke on Christmas Day and until then I don't believe her & my dad had a name picked for her. Well, Dean Martin's birthday was Christmas Day and one of his daughter's names was Deana so that is who she was named after. I guess they liked Dean Martin. Interestingly, I just looked him up and he ended up dying on his birthday in 1995, 29 years to the day that his mother died. That's weird.

I altered a box from Federal Express that all the gifts fit perfectly inside. I covered the white box with the pattern paper I used on the card, My Mind's Eye as well as the inside by spraying with spray adhesive (works great!). Closed it with some pretty white ribbon & topped it with 2 big flowers & silver dew drops in the middle.

Here are the contents of the gift inside the box. It;s going to be real easy to mail & will keep the contents protected. Here is a picture of the frame I made, placing the cut out butterfly inside. What is so neat about htis frame is that there is space in between the glass & the actual picture that the butterfly's wings are actually off the page because I wanted it to coordinate with the card. However, I added some flowers on the background of the lovely lilac with Tropical Flowers. I love the 2 sentiments in this set - and both of the butterflies, I prefer to have realistic ones to whimsical ones so this set appeals to me so much! Since I love to color, I had so much fun coloring the butterfly with my Peerless Watercolors, aquapainter & highlighted with Copic atyou Spica pens (sorry I didn't get a photo of the sparkle)

Finally, a picture of the butterfly necklace, cell phone charm & bookmark I made using clear polyshrink. As I was making the card, Deana called and I asked her if she liked butterflies. She said, 'yea, remember I have a butterfly tattoo on my chest" I said oh yea (she has like 9, I forget what they all are) and when I asked her the colors, she said blue & purple. Stamping Serendipity - I colored the butterfly for the card 2 nights before (with the help of John who suggested blue & orange when I had already started with the purple). I bet she's going to love this gift!! I just realized I haven't made her any jewelry and I've been making it almost 2 years!

You have to see what sneak peeks of Take Flight the rest of the design team have to share today! See ya tonight at the release party on SCS!! 7:00 - 10:00 CST for fun, challenges (I'll be issuing one), contests & chatting!

THUD!!! Just a moment (picking jaw off from FLOOR!)....OMG!!! Will you adopt me as your honorary Sister, PLEEEEEZE!! Seriously, just the first shot of this magnificent gift was enough to make me drool and dribble and then you showed the matching giftbox and amazingly gorgeous jewelry inside!!! Holy butterfly wings--I'm stunned! This is so fabulous, Donna. It's certainly makes a super special gift for your deprived day-after-Christmas-birthday Sis, but WOW!! You need to make this stuff and sell it on Etsy or something!!! Of course, I am lucky enough to have some of your masterful jewerly in my possesion (and won't hesitate to lay someone out who tries to steal it!) hehe :) so, maybe I'm partial. Everyone should be so lucky. k, I'm offically rambling...c ya at the party tonight! xoxo